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The sociolinguistics of the rise and fall of postcolonial languages: The case of Micronesia

Research Project

Project/Area Number 22682003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

MATSUMOTO Kazuko  東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (80350239)

Research Collaborator BRITAIN David  ベルン大学, 英語英文学部, 教授
Project Period (FY) 2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,370,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Keywordsstrong ties / weak ties / Concentration Model / Dynamic Model / 社会的ネットワーク / 言語の維持と交代 / パラオ日本語 / パラオ英語 / koineization / Founder Principle / colonial lag / pronoun / negation / address term / koine / World Englishes / 語用論的変化 / 方言接触 / 新方言 / コイネ / 言語変化 / 言語消滅 / postcolonial Japanese / postcolonial English / discourse variation / pragmatic variation / デショ / ダロ / hiatus resolution / フィリピン人移民 / 言語変異 / ディアスポラ日本語 / 日系 / 接触変種 / ポストコロニアル / パラオ
Research Abstract

This research project aims to explore mechanisms of language change in the postcolonial multilingual Republic of Palau from both macro and micro perspectives. We investigated (a) to what extent and (b) in what way the two former colonial languages, Japanese and English, are used alongside indigenous language Palauan as well as (c) what linguistic and extra-linguistic factors are likely to affect speakers' language use.
Our findings have made theoretical contributions to the field of contact sociolinguistics; in particular, leading to a better understanding of (a) the effects of so-called "strong and weak ties" upon language maintenance and shift, (b) the applicability of the Concentration Model to the obsolescence of Palauan Japanese as well as (c) the applicability of the Dynamic Model to American postcolonial Palauan English.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2013 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2012 Annual Research Report
  • 2011 Annual Research Report
  • 2010 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (40 results)

All 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Other

All Journal Article (11 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (23 results) (of which Invited: 7 results) Book (5 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Cake baking in a postcolonial Japanese speech community: Koineisation of Palauan Japanese in the Pacific2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information

      Volume: Text 20 Pages: 63-85

    • NAID

      40019947289

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Cake baking in a postcolonial Japanese speech community: Koineization of Palauan Japanese in the Pacific.2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information, Text

      Volume: 20 Pages: 63-85

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko and David Britain
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information

      Volume: Text Vol. 19 Pages: 137-167

    • NAID

      120005623371

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific.2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko and David Britain
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information, Text

      Volume: 19. Pages: 137-167

    • NAID

      120005623371

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Contact sociolinguistics of diaspora Japanese: Linguistic innovation and attrition in the Western Pacific2011

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information

      Volume: Text 17 Pages: 33-61

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Contact linguistics of diaspora Japanese : Linguistic innovation and attrition in the Western Pacific2011

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto
    • Journal Title

      Language, Information, Text

      Volume: 18 Pages: 33-61

    • NAID

      40019198430

    • Related Report
      2011 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Palauan language contact and change: A sociolinguistic analysis of borrowing in Palauan2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      In J. Dobovsek-Sethna, F. Fister-Stoga, C. Duval (eds.), Linguapax Asia: A Retrospective Edition of Language and Human Rights Issues, Collected Proceedings of Linguapax Asia Symposia 2004 - 2009. Linguapax Asia: Tokyo

      Volume: Chapter 3 Pages: 36-52

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau: Mechanisms of language maintenance and shift2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Multilingua

      Volume: Vol. 29, No. 2 Pages: 133-165

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ミクロネシアの日本語2010

    • Author(s)
      松本和子
    • Journal Title

      日本語学

      Volume: Vol. 29, No. 6 Pages: 58-73

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report 2010 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Palauan language contact and change : A sociolinguistic analysis of borrowing in Palauan.2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Linguapax Asia : A Retrospective Edition of Language and Human Rights Issues, Collected Proceedings of Linguapax Asia Symposia 2004-2009.

      Pages: 36-52

    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau : Mechanisms of language maintenance and shift.2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Journal Title

      Multilingua : Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

      Volume: 29(2) Pages: 133-165

    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] English in Paradise?: A new variety in the Pacific2014

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      The Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-13
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Little America in the Pacific?: The formation of postcolonial Palauan English2014

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Sociolinguistics Symposium 20
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: History, development and structure2013

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar presentation, Department of Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
    • Year and Date
      2013-05-29
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: An emerging new variety of the Western Pacific. Research Seminar presentation2013

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
    • Year and Date
      2013-05-20
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: An emerging new variety of the Western Pacific2013

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar presentation, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Sciences
    • Place of Presentation
      Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    • Year and Date
      2013-05-17
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] English in Paradise?: The history, status and structure of Palauan English2013

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes
    • Place of Presentation
      Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan Japanese as an endangered postcolonial variety of Japanese in the Pacific2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David
    • Organizer
      Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Discourse-pragmatic change in shifting language: Evidence from a postcolonial Japanese variety in the Pacific2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      1st International Conference on Language Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan Japanese as an endangered postcolonial variety of Japanese in the Pacific.2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko & Britain, David
    • Organizer
      1st International Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] English in Paradise?: The history, status and structure of Palauan English.2013

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David & Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes
    • Place of Presentation
      Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Testing the Dynamic Model: An analysis of an American postcolonial variety of English in the Pacific2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      2nd International Conference on Cultures and Languages in Contact
    • Place of Presentation
      Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Discourse-pragmatic change in shifting language: Evidence from a postcolonial variety of Japanese in Micronesia2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Macau, Macau
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko and Britain, David
    • Organizer
      2nd LINEE Conference: Multilingualism in the public sphere
    • Place of Presentation
      Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] I've been drinking since I was young, haven't I?: A short-lived innovation of the tags in a postcolonial variety of Japanese2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Discourse-Pragmatic Variation Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Salford, Manchester, U.K.
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] "I’ve been drinking since I was young, haven’t I?": A short-lived innovation of the tags in a postcolonial variety of Japanese.2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Discourse-Pragmatic Variation Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Salford, Manchester, U.K
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific.2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko and David Britain
    • Organizer
      2nd LINEE Conference: Multilingualism in the public sphere
    • Place of Presentation
      Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Discourse-pragmatic change in shifting language: Evidence from a postcolonial variety of Japanese in Micronesia.2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Macau, Macau
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Testing the Dynamic Model: An analysis of a postcolonial variety of English in the Pacific.2012

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      2nd International Conference on Cultures and Languages in Contact
    • Place of Presentation
      Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] An endangered Japanese contact variety in the multilingual Republic of Palau: A new expanded function of the tag desho2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
    • Place of Presentation
      Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] An endangered Japanese contact variety in the multilingual Republic of Palau : A new expanded function of the tag desho.2010

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      第43回欧州言語学会(43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)
    • Place of Presentation
      リトアニア、ビリニュス大学
    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: An emerging new variety of the Western Pacific.

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David & Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Sciences
    • Place of Presentation
      Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: An emerging new variety of the Western Pacific.

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David & Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Palauan English: History, development and structure.

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David & Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Organizer
      Research Seminar, Department of Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Palauan English: History, status and linguistic characteristics. In Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), Further Lesser-Known Varieties of English. (Studies in English Language)2014

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Publisher
      Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Book] Palauan English: History, status and linguistic characteristics. In Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), Further Lesser-Known Varieties of English. (Studies in English Language).2014

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David & Matsumoto, Kazuko
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「パラオ日本語の語用論的変異と変化」. 岡村徹・ヤラペアアポイ(編) オセアニアの言語的世界2013

    • Author(s)
      松本和子
    • Publisher
      渓水社
    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report
  • [Book] パラオ日本語の語用論的変異と変化 『南太平洋の言語的世界』2013

    • Author(s)
      松本和子
    • Total Pages
      310
    • Publisher
      渓水社
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Volume 2)

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto, David Britain
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press(掲載確定)(未定)
    • Related Report
      2011 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 松本和子 第10回日本オセアニア学会賞受賞. 2011年3月(受賞論文2010b).

    • Related Report
      2013 Final Research Report

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